Chief Software Architect

Chief Software Architect at BOEING summary:

The Chief Software Architect at Boeing leads the design, development, and maintenance of large-scale software systems supporting the Defense, Space & Security business. This role involves overseeing architecture for backend, frontend, and large-scale distributed systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards and fostering innovation with emerging technologies. The position requires strong leadership, mentoring skills, and the ability to manage complex projects with minimal supervision.

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Chief Software Architect to join the Model-Based Software /team located in Berkeley, MO . This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) business organization.

As a Chief Software Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping the company's product architecture. This is an exciting opportunity to work on multiple aspects of the business, including Backend Architecture, Front-End Architecture, and Large-Scale Software System Architecture.

At The Boeing Company, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Position Responsibilities:

• Oversees the architecture, design, development, analyses, and maintenance of large scale software systems that meet industry, customer and quality.
• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and oversees translation of system-level requirements into software requirements and models that meet customer, operational and performance requirements and have clear traceability to design, code and test artifacts.
• Oversees code reviews to ensure alignment to requirements and standards.
• Oversees monitoring and reviewing test completion, verification processes and issue resolution for software systems.
• Oversees review of product and process for alignment with project plans and industry standards by consulting on tracking and evaluation of internal team and supplier performance.
• Researches and oversees implementation of current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and changes in regulations relevant to software development.
• Oversees software project management and software supplier management activities.
• Provide comprehensive technical oversight for different systems, guiding teams in designing and operating production-ready systems.
• Engage in architectural discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives.
• Resolving complex technical issues and driving innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges.
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.
• Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision.
• Teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity.

We work in a casual but professional environment with multi-disciplined teams of engineers that take pride in developing, integrating, testing and delivering innovative solutions. There is long-term potential for career growth into technical leadership or management positions and we value the curiosity, tenacity and imagination our engineers bring to our teams each day.

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Ability to obtain a Top Secret US Security clearance (Post-Start).
• 8+ years of experience in large-scale software system architecture, design, and development of distributed/on-premises end-to-end scalable software.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Proven understanding of microservices, client-server architecture, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and other modern architectural styles to build robust and adaptable systems.
• 5 years of experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching strategies, and data pipelines.
• Strong experience with programming languages such as Go, Node.js, Java, or Python.
• Familiarity with the Agile software development process.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
• Cloud integration experience.
• Real-world experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs in architectural decisions, balancing scalability, cost, and complexity.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex datasets.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with teams of varied strengths.
• Experience leading architecture and technical development for digital teams with large-scale and high volume web-based transactional systems.
• Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources.
• Knowledge of how to derive and allocate requirements (e.g., system, sub-system, software) and show traceability throughout the product lifecycle.
• Knowledge of software development processes in compliance with established internal and industry standards, guidelines, and best practices in the development, testing, and deployment of software.
• Knowledge of implementation, validation, and verification processes, practices, and guidelines to ensure software development quality, performance, and safety.
• Ability to understand the big picture and the inter-relationships of all positions and activities in the system, including the impact of changes in one area on another area. This includes the ability to see and understand the inter-relationships between components of systems and plans, anticipate future events, and apply the principles of systems thinking to accelerate performance.

Travel:

10%

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range: $156,400.00 - $211,600.00

Applications for this position will be accepted until Aug. 05, 2025

Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Export Control Details: US based job, US Person required

Relocation

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim U.S. Top Secret Clearance Pre-Start and final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Keywords:

software architecture, large-scale systems, distributed systems, microservices, backend architecture, frontend architecture, cloud integration, Agile development, software development, defense technology